"The kind of carefree happiness we had before is forever gone from our lives,"
"We will never have that feeling again."
"We asked ourselves, 'How in the world are we ever going to get joy back into our lives again,' "
Not claiming any authority on this, but those statements just don't seem right to me. They fly in the face of claims of "living your life for your child."
Did they son want them to be joyless? According to them, if I have a good time now that Drew is dead, is something wrong with ME?
Is the only way to get joy back in your life to have MORE children?
I just remembered I saw her on TV yesterday, talking about this very thing, saying that people come up to her all the time talking about "being a member of the same club," or something like that.
IMO -- and I'm certainly not smart enough to know -- but something is not right with these statements. If they really DO still feel that way after 8 years, they need psychological help.
They revel in their own misery, and want the world to take notice. No one ever characterized a Democrat as having a firm grip on mental health.
Their comments, especially the ones about all the joy having gone out of their lives even though they still had a daughter - and implying they had to replace their dead son with two babies - do seem rather dismissive of her or her own grief over the loss of her brother. I'm trying not to be judgmental, as I realize people respond different ways to grief, but when they cross the line into exploitation, my sympathy will dry up.